San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Hippopots is great, our little one was very proud of his green gecko with orange stripes and yellow spots!  Say hi to them when you go, she'll remember us.  Next door to there is the Athens bar, make sure you go there when they've got live music, its great! Or for something more cheesy, Condor bar is the other side, next door to Zorbas restaurant.  If you have a look at the Online Map link at the top of the page you can get your bearings a bit more...

We watched the first stage of clearance this morning; many lorry loads left the beach, most of the 2 massive piles that were outside Waves - the most obvious bits you can see on the webcam. A HUGE amount remains to be cleared though, stretching from there all the way to the pontoon. It's about 2-3 feet deep and 10 feet wide all the way. They've done well today, but it's far from finished.  As you can see as well, the bridge is back in place after the JCB also created a new channel straight to the sea directly from the gully.  Cloudy and cooling off now, we're told rain is on the way for the last 48 hours of our time here... Still, it's been as lovely and we've had a fab time as always.

We've been here since last Tuesday and have seen no sign of anyone clearing the beach. One morning a digger turned up and took one load away, but nothing since. Outside waves there are 2 piles around 6 or 7 feet high and further down past Athina it's about 2 feet deep and approx 1\3rd the width of the beach (there's one row of beds there, but you couldn't walk into the sea if you wanted to. It thins out around the pontoon and there on, there is no seaweed.  Some say its due to the elections that it hasn't been cleared, others say they're waiting for the weather to settle. Whatever it is, it's making that end of the beach unusable.

Corfu-info.com seems to work well for me. Gave my parents back home in England a wave from there this morning so apologies to anyone taking a look at around 9.30 English time, that was me and my lot!

Hi, we arrived today and the beach is in a really sorry state towards Waves and where the bridge was (it's gone too). There's now a wall of seaweed between waves, Manthos and the sea which going to take weeks to clear. With half term next week, a lot of new visitors to SS are going to get a really bad impression of the beach, which will be such a shame.  The seaweed spreads as far down as. Mango before it stops.

I use Accuweather: http://www.accuweather.com/en/gr/aghios-stefanos/2283443/weather-forecast/2283443 

and a sailing forecast: http://poseidon.hcmr.gr/weather_forecast.php?area_id=gr

Accuweather predicts further out, but as Andy says, anything beyond the next few days is largely guesswork.  I like to use the ones that show that the sun's going to shine!

2 weeks today, we'll be just about landing at the airport.  No return trip later in the year booked....yet!

Getting very excited now, and watching the forecast it seems to be settling down to the lovely mid-high 70s.

Aahhh, I can smell the Mythos...

Keep looking at the log range forecast for our arrival in 3 weeks time, but slightly concerned by the low temps at the moment.  Are we worrying too much?!

http://www.accuweather.com/en/gr/aghios-stefanos/1274957/may-weather/1274957?monyr=5/1/2014